¹⁶ Take care ^(A)lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and ^(B)serve other gods and worship them;

¹² Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from ^(A)the living God.

Warning Against Neglecting Salvation

2 Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

¹⁸ Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you ^(A)a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,

²¹ Little children, ^(A)keep yourselves from idols.

²⁶ If anyone thinks he is religious ^(A)and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's ^(B)religion is worthless.

Watch Yourselves

³⁴ “But watch yourselves ^(A)lest ^(B)your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and ^(C)cares of this life, and ^(D)that day come upon you suddenly ^(E)like a trap.

^20 (A)He feeds on ^(B)ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not ^(C)a lie in my right hand?”

¹⁷ But if ^(A)your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them,